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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 473

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Relating to: funding for chronic wasting disease research and management and making an appropriation. (FE)

Animal — Disease Natural resources department of — Environmental protection

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under this bill, the Department of Natural Resources may research chronic

wasting disease (CWD) in cervids, in addition to managing, and providing funding

to conduct testing for CWD, which DNR is authorized to do under current law. A

cervid is any species of deer or elk that is present in the wild and that is not a

farm-raised deer. The bill also appropriates $1,000,000 annually from the general

fund in fiscal years 2019-20 and 2020-21 for research on and management of CWD.

Current law appropriates no money for this purpose.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bewley (D) , Larson (D) , Ringhand (D) , Schachtner (D) , Shilling (D) , Smith (D) , Wirch (D)

19 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , B. Meyers (D) , Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Doyle (D) , Gruszynski (D) , Hintz (D) , Kolste (D) , Milroy (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Vruwink (D) , Zamarripa (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 4, 2019 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Schachtner, Smith, Bewley, Ringhand, Larson, Shilling and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Shankland, Milroy, Doyle, Gruszynski, B. Meyers, Vruwink, Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Hintz, Kolste, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, Spreitzer, C. Taylor and Zamarripa

  2. Oct 4, 2019 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Sporting Heritage, Mining and Forestry

  3. Nov 11, 2019 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Dec 13, 2019 · Senate

    Representative Sinicki added as a cosponsor

  5. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1